This guide provides vocational education administrators with resource information and explanations of various requirements of the Federal Civil Rights legislation as it relates to vocational education. It is intended to clarify the relationship of the Standards to the vocational education civil rights compliance program in New York. (The Standards set forth civil rights laws governing vocational education and how these laws specifically apply to vocational education in New York.) Following an introduction, section 2 considers purpose of the Standards, reason for their development, their development, development of the Methods of Administration, reasons vocational education is receiving special civil rights attention, relationship between Office for Civil Rights' Guidelines and sex equity provisions of the Vocational Education Act, and age discrimination as covered by the Standards. Each of the six sections comprising the Standards is overviewed in section 3; section 4 discusses major provisions. Compliance is briefly addressed in section 5. Section 6 contains the text of the Standards. The statutory, regulatory, or other legal authority for each provision is cited. Examples illustrate how specific provisions may apply to recipients. Sources of information and documents are listed that are useful in determining whether recipients are complying with the standards. Definitions are appended. (YLB)